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Heavy Snowfall Blankets Spain
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Published January 11, 2021
Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971.
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Rising Seas in Charleston
Sea level rise and new development are on a collision course in South Carolina lowcountry.
Socked in Stratovolcano
Published January 10, 2021
Uninhabited Atlasov Island rises above the clouds and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Kilauea’s Lava Lake Returns
Published January 7, 2021
Water that had pooled in the crater since 2019 quickly boiled off during an eruption that began in December 2020.
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Phytoplankton Factory in the Argentine Sea
Published January 8, 2021
In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms.
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An Outburst from Popocatépetl
Published January 6, 2021
Ash and gas emissions continue from one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes.
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The Long Decline of Arctic Sea Ice
Forty years of satellite data show that 2020 was just the latest in a decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice.
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The Stability of von Kármán’s Vortices
Published January 5, 2021
A founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory made a key mathematical insight about swirling, asymmetrical flow patterns.
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Reshaping Coastal Louisiana
Published January 4, 2021
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away.
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Aral Sea in Winter
Published December 31, 2020
Cold temperatures through December sustain areas of snow and ice across Central Asia’s inland lake.
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Shrinking Margins of Greenland
Published January 2, 2021
At least 200 of the island’s coastal glaciers have retreated over the past 20 years.
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Robinson Crusoe Island
The islands of the Juan Fernández Archipelago rival the Galápagos in their abundance of endemic plants.
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